World's fastest internet connection 'used to dry laundry'

The Local writes: "

Last summer a 75-year-old woman from Karlstad became the envy of internet users worldwide.

With her blistering 40 gigabits per second connection, Sigbritt Löthberg had the world's fastest internet connection - many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user had experienced such a high speed.

So after nine months with the ability to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds or access to 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously, how has Sigbritt's life changed?

Not much, according to Hafsteinn Jonsson, who is heading up the fibre network operation for Karlstad Stadsnät.

"She mostly used it to dry her laundry," he told The Local.

"It was a big bit of gear and it got pretty warm." "

[zonetrooper5]

Man if I had a 40GB connection I would download so many movies, music albums and games haha. I'm only on a 20MB connection from Virgin Media. =P

[The Wood]

is it as good as they advertise. Do they use traffic shaping or have limits.

[RealityCheck]

@1.1 fiber optics do have theoretical limits but we are nowhere near them. Currently the limitations are due to electronics at each end and this may always be the case.

[Bonsai1214]

yeah, the limit for FiOS is ridiculously high. limitations are the modems connected at the ends. which is why they won't need to lay down new infrastructure any time soon, but just keep improving the electronics.

[Amanosenpai]

WTF... i just have 512 kps dsl connection... so STFU ¬_¬

[JsonHenry]

I wish I had a connection that fast. I am stuck with 6meg service from Time Warner.

[The Wood]

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[mhr512]

@1.5

I work for Time Warner, later this year standard roadrunner will be 10 down and 1 up. Turbo 15x2!

[Amanosenpai]

6meg is a wet dream here in Mexico ^^

[Jon Cage]

But the way it's distributed is crazy. I have it at my house, but my parents who are less than a mile away don't. If anyone is wondering how good it is or if they should get it. Limewire was my best friend right after I got connected. It took me more time thinking of stuff that I wanted to d/l than the actual time it took to d/l.

Oh and from the gaming side. It's really easy to get host, and P2P online games you have enough bandwidth to host matches across the Atlantic with no lag.

[KineticX]

I used to have that 20MB connection from 'Virgin Media', we just got upgraded before we moved house,because we were so close to the exchange, it was more like 26MB.

Now I got 8MB DSL from Sky >.> Not a happy bunny indeed.

[ravinash]

My internet was running really slow last night...even after 11pm (which is after peak time) it got down as low as 128kbs.....I'm paying for an 8MB service.
Damn Orange....they are so crap.

Finally decided I'm changing over to 'be'.

[Breakfast]

Shes my hero

[Cwalat]

GO SWEDEN :D

ska fan råna henne so jag kan spela snabbare online o döda er alla >:D

MUHAHAHAHAHA

[NIN64]

OMFGWTFBBQ

[Azures]

Are their modems or routers available to consumers that can even attempt to approach something this fast?

Most are limited to 100mbs via hardline connection, 50/100mbs over wireless.

[bootsielon]

What is the point of wasting so much bandwidth.

[TwissT]

It is called PORNOGRAPHY my friend.

[TurdStationPee]

This old bag doesn't have much time to download all those 20 gig site rips. Good thing for her connection.

[EZCheez]

That is not a fan of digital downloads.

[micro_invader]

man, I wish my internet was that fast. I'm stuck on a really crappy one right now but will be upgrading soon.

[Harry190]

he'd better do something about this.

[undacovabrothe]

was really hoping they explained how she does her fukn laundry with an internet connection.... Do they mean like order some maid service online or something? Or the internet actually runs some program for a machine to do her laundry. But anyway only me and God knows what I would do with that connection.

[The Lazy One]

So she drys her laundry on it.

[athlon770]

The equipment that is...

[The Lazy One]

then she can dry all her neighbors laundry too...

[PopEmUp]

the House will go on Fire

[cloud360-7th_account]

i have 2mb

but it goes a 250KB

they ripp you off

[bootsielon]

You probably have 2 MegaBITS, which is equal to 250 Kilo BYTES

8 bits = 1 byte

Do the math.

[Denges]

ladies and gentlemen we have a weiner

[TurdStationPee]

lol. this drooling monkey actually owned someone. congrats. LOLOOL !!!!!!

[sak500]

I hv same and thats the max u can get. 2000bits/8 = 250kbps

[sak500]

oops

[Rice]

Wow at times im hitting 7 kbps...

[mintaro]

dude....how does a 75 year old get that kind of speed.....

[The Lazy One]

Her son (or grandson, can't remember) runs the company that provides it. They decided to use her as a test for the system.

[RecSpec]

That's it, I'm staying off this site until April 2nd. I don't know WHAT to believe anymore.

[SIX]

:)

[PeterGriffinSays]

Definitely dude.

[TwissT]

HOLY JESUS CHRIST FROM HEAVEN! How did she get this heavenly connection speed? I only have a poor 70kbps cable connection.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

"dry her laundry." Such awesome power that could be used for faster teabagging sessions in Cod4 is efficently used albeit unfortunate for laundry drying sessions.

[mirroredderorrim]

was OC-255 faster?

Edit: nope. I used to use that. Heh.

[komradkyle]

wow. this is crazy. She should have been hosting Gears of war, and I guarantee it would still be glitchy

[kcdude]

40Gbps would be nice...but I'm happy with my 15Mbps Time Warner.

[buddyro]

she could buy a wireless router and distribute it with no type of lag. Well maybe not hackers would have a field day with her router.

[Covenant]

Damn. Where do I get one of those?

54 Mbps is the best I can get.

[Bladestar]

ohh wow! Jesus! Some of you have such low internet speed.... no wonder some of you are so against digital distribution and see it as something impossible to achive... damn... Optimun online gives me up to 15MB for $29.95 and up to 25mb for $39.95.....

[smokemeagain]

as a electrical engineer.... this is practically not attainable in this time. signaling has not reached that bandwidth yet. april fools.

dry laundry...common

[Lowlife]

practically or not, this is no april fools-story. I read about this in the local newspapers a couple of months ago (yes, I live quite near Karlstad. I even graduated there :) )

[aaron5829]

I think so.

[LinuxGuru]

Are you kidding me?

That is stupidly....stupid.

[dabizo]

OMG I want an internet connection that can wash and dry my clothes - Amazing! Also there are now flying penguins! Its almost totally ridiculous :)

[ChickeyCantor]

....40gb/8 = 5GB/sec Download speed...
.........did he use some special network card? i mean....a standard Networkcard would be killing your PC with so much data coming in and out.

ITs FAKE! DKAKLDALF

[athlon770]

of course you do realize that you can get a fiber card for the pc don't you?

Granted, most internal fiber cards are multimode 100mbt, but there are a couple of 1gbt fiber cards out there. Considering the story said she had 40gbt to her house as her son was experimenting with transfer protocals, it said nothing about that 40gbt going into a computer.

This is all part of a small stage to get fiber into every house, once that happens, all telco, tv, and computer will come into the house over that single fiber line.

[zonetrooper5]

Virgin Media will traffic shape you if you don't between the peak times, I do hate that. Its from 4pm till about 9pm or something like that. Virgin Meida are bringing out a 50mb connection later this year and if you can afford it and live in an area which you can get Cable then go for it.

Be* is another broadband provider which is good, they provide 24mb connection through BT's line. Just don't go anywhere near BT or AOL, hell I've heard that Sky is not all that great.

[SaiyanFury]

Fundamental internet architecture isn't expensive but American corporate monopolies prevent modern, and affordable technologies from becoming prevalent. The US is years behind places like Europe in it's infrastructure simply because of the lack of competition and monopolies. Me and my wife here in Florida have a lousy 1.5 mbps connection which is nothing near what HD movie downloads require. Hell we're considered too "rural" by our ISP to upgrade to their 3mbps connection. We won't be subscribing to any digital download services anytime soon. At the very least, until American companies start providing reliable and faster connection services.

[kylegtheassman]

my router is a D-LINK N Xtreme it is the fastest router you can buy my wireless is 300 mbps and the wired is 1 gbps my ps3 has a 1 gbps and my laptop wireless is 300 mbps and the wired on it runs at 1 gbps gigabits pre second and its mbps megabits pre second not MBps megabytes pre second.

[harv711]

Is that shes won every on-line bingo game shes entered. She's been banned in 34 states for Bingo fraud. A serious and growing crime amongst senior citizens. Her real name is Bingo Beth. The only way she could continue in her bingo lust, is by going online... Clothes dryer indeed, more like cover up!

[sandip787]

what sites/download apps would even support such a high speed? you cold never download torrents or anything that fast.

[LJWooly]

Here in the UK, most guys I know only have ~2MB connection, at most :(

[Bruceongames]

And it is the top story

[GCO Gamer]

why in the world would they give her that kind of speed she is to old to use it.

[Arkham]

Read the full article. Her son's a network guy who's doing it as an experiment.

[mirroredderorrim]

God damned it. This story wasen't even posted on April Fools, fools. L2Aprilfool

[Arkham]

This is so bloody OLD.

It was an AP article from July. I read it in <gasp!> print newspapers at the time.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...

[hamsterfist]

The lady then went on to state that despite her 40GB connection, she still experienced lag when playing on Xbox Live.
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Relax I am just joking and I realize that other people's connection can cause lag.

[Azurite]

I read about it last year: http://www.thelocal.se/7869... <- here's the original article from the same site created July last year.

If you search on google you'll probably find old articles about it too.
But even if she has such a connection speed her computer probably only have a 100Mbit card :P